Dissertations Moral and Critical, Band 1Mess. Exshaw, Walker, Beatty, White, Byrne, Cash, and M'Kenzie, 1783 |
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... sense , and knowledge too ; and there were great ftatefinen , great poets , and great philofo- phers ; and greater commanders , and orators , than have appeared in the world ever fince . Whence , then , did they derive their greatnefs ...
... sense , and knowledge too ; and there were great ftatefinen , great poets , and great philofo- phers ; and greater commanders , and orators , than have appeared in the world ever fince . Whence , then , did they derive their greatnefs ...
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... sense of his own dignity ; it becomes any man , or any woman , who is provoked to ex- ert a laudible indignation ; and it is becoming in thofe motions and dances , that are intended to fhew the human stature and shape to advantage ; but ...
... sense of his own dignity ; it becomes any man , or any woman , who is provoked to ex- ert a laudible indignation ; and it is becoming in thofe motions and dances , that are intended to fhew the human stature and shape to advantage ; but ...
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... sense ; and juft the reverse of fullennefs , inattention , and ftupidity . The fixed and unvaried glare of an inexpreffive eye is frightful . It puts one in mind of death , and is fuch a look as we fhould expect in a ghoft . So our ...
... sense ; and juft the reverse of fullennefs , inattention , and ftupidity . The fixed and unvaried glare of an inexpreffive eye is frightful . It puts one in mind of death , and is fuch a look as we fhould expect in a ghoft . So our ...
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... sense of harmony affumes various appearan- ces . Pope , for all the fmoothnefs of his num- bers , had no mufical ear ; Milton , though his poetry is moft harmonious , writes rugged profe : and Addifon , whofe profe is the fweetest that ...
... sense of harmony affumes various appearan- ces . Pope , for all the fmoothnefs of his num- bers , had no mufical ear ; Milton , though his poetry is moft harmonious , writes rugged profe : and Addifon , whofe profe is the fweetest that ...
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... Sense ; which is indeed the principal thing ; and which fome would confider , as comprehending most of the foregoing particulars . By Judgment , I here understand fuch a conftitution of mind , as dif- pofes a man to attend to the ...
... Sense ; which is indeed the principal thing ; and which fome would confider , as comprehending most of the foregoing particulars . By Judgment , I here understand fuch a conftitution of mind , as dif- pofes a man to attend to the ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
adjective adverbs Æneid affirmation affociated alfo alſo antient aorift appear beauty becauſe cafe called caufe Cicero confequently confidered defire denotes difcourfe diftinct diftinguished dreams effential elegant English expreffion exprefs fable faid fame fatire fecond fecondly feem feen fenfe fentence fentiments feveral fhall fhort fhould fign fignify fimple firft firſt fleep fome fomething fometimes fpeak fpecies fpeech fpoken ftill ftyle fubject fublime fuch fuppofed fyllables Grammarians Greek himſelf human ideas imagination itſelf laft language Latin learned leaſt lefs meaning meaſure Memory mind moft moſt muft muſt nature neceffary noun obferved occafion paffage paffions paffive pafs paft participle paſt perfon philofophers pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poet poffible pofition prefent prepofitions preterite profe pronoun purpoſe racter reafon refpect rife ſpeak tafte tenfes thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thought tion tive tongue trochees underſtand uſe verb verfe Virgil whofe words writing
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 334 - Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Seite 188 - The ways of heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled in mazes, and perplex'd with errors : Our understanding traces them in vain, Lost and bewilder'd in the fruitless search : Nor sees with how much art the windings run, Nor where the regular confusion ends.
Seite 392 - Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs ; and Nature gave a second groan ; Sky lour'd, and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original...
Seite 382 - They looking back, all th' eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Wav'd over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful faces throng'd and fiery arms...
Seite 270 - I was once myself in agonies of grief that are unutterable, and in so great a distraction of mind, that I thought myself even out of the possibility of receiving comfort. The occasion was as follows : When I was a youth, in a part of the army which was then quartered at Dover, I fell in love with an agreeable young woman, of a good family in those parts, and had the satisfaction of seeing my addresses kindly received, which occasioned the perplexity I am going to relate. We were in a calm evening...
Seite 270 - In the midst of these our innocent endearments, she snatched a paper of verses out of my hand, and ran away with them. I was following her, when on a...
Seite 354 - It is indifferent for judges and magistrates ; for if they be facile and corrupt, you shall have a servant five times worse than a wife. For soldiers, I find the generals, commonly in their hortatives...
Seite 213 - So vast is art, so narrow human wit : Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft' in those confin'd to single parts.
Seite 271 - ... height upon such a range of rocks, as would have dashed her into ten thousand pieces had her body been made of adamant. It is much easier for my reader to imagine my state of mind upon such an occasion than for me to express it. I said to myself, It is not in the power of heaven to relieve me! when I awaked, equally transported and astonished, to see myself drawn out of an affliction which, the very moment before, appeared to me altogether inextricable.
Seite 420 - It is one of the great beauties of poetry to make hard things intelligible, and to deliver what is abstruse of itself in such easy language as may be understood by ordinary readers...